Unit 5 Review Questions

1. What was significant about the Zimmerman Note? How did it lead to the U.S. entering ? 2. List three of the territories claimed by the United States during this time period 3. What was the Great Migration? 4. How did the acquisition of Hawaii help the United States military? 5. What was the Open Door policy? 6. What was the Platt Amendment? 7. Describe the type of diplomacy used by each of the following Presidents a. Roosevelt b. Taft c. 8. What impact did World War I have on American women? On African Americans? 9. Why did the United States Senate reject the U.S. entering the ? 10. What was controversial about The and the Act of 1918? ​ 11. Why did the U.S. reject the ? 12. How did the Spanish-American War start? What was the end result? 13. What was “Yellow Journalism”? 14. What was the significance of the Schenck vs. United States case? ​ ​ 15. What is isolationism? 16. Why did Congress pass the Selective Service Act during World War I?

Unit 5 Review Questions

1. What was significant about the Zimmerman Note? How did it lead to the U.S. entering World War I? 2. List three of the territories claimed by the United States during this time period 3. What was the Great Migration? 4. How did the acquisition of Hawaii help the United States military? 5. What was the Open Door policy? 6. What was the Platt Amendment? 7. Describe the type of diplomacy used by each of the following Presidents a. Roosevelt b. Taft c. Wilson 8. What impact did World War I have on American women? On African Americans? 9. Why did the United States Senate reject the U.S. entering the League of Nations? 10. What was controversial about The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918? ​ 11. Why did the U.S. reject the Treaty of Versailles? 12. How did the Spanish-American War start? What was the end result? 13. What was “Yellow Journalism”? 14. What was the significance of the Schenck vs. United States case? ​ ​ 15. What is isolationism? 16. Why did Congress pass the Selective Service Act during World War I?